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Did the entire server get put on Alexandrite by default, and how do I get off Alexandrite and go back to default Lemmy UI? (ani.social)
submitted 1 week ago by Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social to c/meta@ani.social
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I typed in "ani.social" in my phone browser, expecting to see the normal Lemmy UI. Instead I'm confronted with the Alexandrite front end. I don't think I clicked anything to give me this front end; I think it's a total surprise to me, it's possible I'm an idiot who missed something and accidentally clicked a setting. Asking for help here after clicking around in more settings trying to figure out how to turn it off.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

🤔 I'll test the other FE for a few days, there was two reasons I stopped using interstellar that I resumed back with lemmy. Iirc one of them was not allowing my diverse input method: need shavian, UTF-16, CJK, markdown support, etc..

not op.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Alexandrite:

Pros:

  • Emojified UI
  • Compactness
  • Subscriptions on sidebar.
  • IME 𐑢𐑻𐑒𐑕.
  • theme customization (AMOLED true dark, hue control)
  • Language posting autoselected (英語です)
  • Hotkeys

Cons:

  • no attachment emoji on «Comment» field
  • broken external article import

Neutral:

  • Infinite scrolling

INSTA-🙅‍♀️ on ϕton. It crunched sized attachments.

Tesseract
Con:

  • disallowing me to zoom in, manually.
  • broken external article import
[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

photon.ani.social's on a old version that uses a different way of lemmy's resizing, they're ~11 months out of date

I could potentially add an option to waste heaps of bandwidth and load full images for everything (like everyone else, including lemmy-ui) but it seems wasteful

[–] hitagi@ani.social 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah I haven't updated Photon in quite a while. Updated just now! Thanks!

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe give the option then, default to crunching. But I like the card system in Alexandrite & lemmy, that auto expands the post. I enrolled here because I enjoy my instance’s «Local» posts, so I would be wasting (2 Bw Post ×) for the local feed if I expanded every post.

For «All», sure I can see the (subs clients posts Bw ×) savings, but not «local.»

[–] hitagi@ani.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you mean searching the post using the URL (such as https://ani.social/post/17919648)? It doesn't seem to work for Alexandrite and Tesseract. It works for Photon though.

I don't think it's a config issue because it also doesn't work on the developers' deployment too: https://alexandrite.app/ and https://tesseract.dubvee.org/

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago

oh lol, thanks.

Yeah Φton is an instant “nah” for me. But funny that the other two I prefer broke that necessary component of lemmyverse.